Canton, June 25, The strike of seamen employed by the China Ni gation Company his been. extendd to land Hoihow, wher steamers balans ing to this concern cannot hie foaded lor unloaded. conversations at Washington be-Gween President, "Roosevelt, Mr. Ramsay Mtaedonaht and A. Edouard Hermot, While the substance the final formula of such a pact deliberation anda careful examina- fat uninteresting country, and, for reverses long weary stroches of Drovided a most delightful run and tion of the situation and all possible the gent pant of live hours one gets] 2 genre should become a very contingencies, have Ierally fed up with the monotony MRE drive, for the should be determined to insist Teached the, conclusion that Japan of paddy elds.
"The greater. parc nang, Dusiness mau; Once AIL men here employed launches, tenders and. sighters longing to the compan have struck yet unknown, he believes that. the United States "will not join in it unless substantial gains can' thereby. be, made which will contribute the success of the General Disarmament' Conference and. the! the opinion that, in view of the fact that the matter' was first taken up between President Roosevelt and Mr, Macdonald, Mr. Herriot bei told about it only later, the propos pact will be somewhat as out-ined in the first part of Mr. Macdonald's disarmament formula which provides that, In case of any violation of the Kellogg Pact, " confer ence of the signatories of that treaty shall decide which party is to blame. It is simply. impossible, he insists, for Japan to assent to any such condition, us Japan is not inclined to have a third party sit on her in judgment.
The Use of the Boycott quite in order, terms of" internat day, Is a resort to aris by" one Stale against another ax n means of forcing one's will en. another, But are not boycotts being used nowadays for the same purpose Soviet Russia, he holds, is virtual-Jy at war with' the entire workd, Moscow, he declares, aims at. the overthrow of all capitalist states by"nubverting the" present social order and by destroying the econo-mie structure of such countries. Armed forees, in the opinion of the
A@Bogarid as old-fashioned. weapons Soviet hierarchy, he proceeds, are and so the Soviet is waging war with thoughts. This thought. war, he holds, has been halted, perhaps temporarily, in, Europe and the full battery. of Soviet bros: now turned direct on the Far Ts this not, war?) asks Lieutenant-Colonel Akira. the unfair distribution of the population and resources of the World, with Great Britain and the United States having territories and minterial supplies which vender them self-sufficient while other countries have to depend of foreign nations even for staple necessaries.
"Even the United States and the: British Empire; in the inter-depondent world of to-day, find it dificult to maintain their economic indepen-Now, (China has. a popula tion estimated at some 400,000,000, isa great market and, at the same time, possesses. enormous material resources. If she closes. her. mar ets ani refuses to offer her natural Tesourees, disastrous consequences; are bound to ensue, especially it such is directed "against one spe-ifed country. Such is the imply tion of the boycott in China. Tt war, regular war, pure and simple."
Lieutenant-Colonel Muto then enumerates "the boycotts that China instituted against others—fairist Great Britain, against. the United States and against Japan and seeks the motive that prompted her to resort to such action. The motive, as the Chinese themselves have said, he points out, was to recover national rights conceded by, treaty to other nations; in other words the boycott was made an in. strument of national policy and, if the boycott is a form of war,' Japan holds. it be, then, declares Lieutenant-Colonel Muto, (Cama bar been guilty of violation of the Kel-loge Pact. Yet, he says, the Lytton Report returned a verdict the construction of this highway freedom of action to resort to ai is good, having a foundation of ed fore to combat such economic hard core laid upon the soil. The Aggression as is implied in the boy-however, is most "crude and leaves much to be desired. On "If Japan signs any international] reaching Ihsing, the last town of engagement forbidding the use of jeall in "Kiangsu, and where a stop armed force or leaves the matter of of thirty minutes is made, a de-defining who the aggressor is to a cided improvement is manifest. both third party, she will have been de rived of her only means of self surrounding scenery. This is the surface of the road and the defence and self-protection. When, vicinity of the "Great Lake" and. the Lague decided that we did not the confines of Chekiang. For in self-defence in Manchuria, we some distance the bus takes the realized the danger of leaving' the western curve of the lake and Jiudgment of such a vital matter to Ten enters the Beautifully wooded)
third party. We do not mean to undergo the bitterness of that treat. portals of Chekiang.
A Change of Scene ut again. Unless the boycott id the attempt to subvert th-Given a bright, sum and a cloud: existing order by corruption of the people's thoughts are not also de-ined ax measures of aggression, Japan simply is not able to sign the; roads and routes. gi Proposed consultative pact. The and for miles the hills and dales, call to anyone, who loves nature, cal embodied in it is splendid, bu Japan hag to deal with stern jand the bamboo trails present ties which do not permit her to in-Pageant of beauty not easily forgotten, Just at this time of the dulge in ideals which would be useless in practice and even disastrous, If Japan joins in the proposed con-_ sultative pact or any other international "measure designed to everyone is busy like the laborious strengthen the international ma. bees amongst the herbs and Rowers, chinery of peace, she can do so only land. the whole - surroundings "are on two conditions, these being (1) the fragrance of the that thought propaganda and the earth and pleasant with the ditties boycott be declared aggressive wea-those nimble fans of the} pons of war and (2) reaffirmation fair. rom the Kiangsa border a of the doctrine that the right of un of five hours suffices to bring self-defence is the sovereign right the passenger to Hangchow, the' one of a State and does not permit of interference or interpretation by sine of wich are entre the Bolden evening. begins to" brighten any arty. the west. "The cost of the tap from Nanking is. $5.80,
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